I am no idiot ie literate numerate and decent it skills but i struggle with on line systems set up for local housing association bidding its just stupid.
More power to you hope u can get something out of the people like joseph rowntree foundation as the medium to long term effects of this will be people living atparental home arrested development single parenting general dysfunction which are all drivers of stress drug use alcohol misuse crime etc.

Carly Arundel commented
2015-02-21 12:20:38 +0000

My landlady turns up whenever she feels like and and often threatens with a notice of eviction if my clothes arent in my wardrobe. She also dictates how to keep the house in term of where furniture is placed. Yet the repairs to the property that needed doing before i moved in are still not done and its been 3 months now. And the appliances in the place don’t function as it stated in the contract. But when i bring this up nothing happens. Is there anything i can do?

benjamin weenen commented
2015-02-15 23:06:41 +0000

Make private rented accommodation subject to Business Rates instead of Council Tax. This would effectively end BTL overnight. Not only would this raise an extra £25bn per year, but it would rationalise and professionalise the residential side of the rental property market. Good for costs, and a better service for tenants.

And no, landlords could not simply pass this tax increase on to tenants. They’d either have to swallow it or sell up.

£25bn off VAT would reduce it to around 15% for the top rate. Which would not only help boost growth, but help the poorest.

Of course replacing Business Rates with an LVT, would produce even better and fairer results.

quinlan gormley commented
2015-02-14 17:45:24 +0000

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lucy hilt commented
2015-02-10 13:19:18 +0000

Of course some people are lucky enough to have more than one house, one here and one in Italy, but don’t have a financial need to rent one off, eh Polly?

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